Lame-duck Knicks coach Larry Brown doesn’t speak to Isiah Thomas any longer. And now he’s banned from speaking to reporters covering the team, according to Brown’s agent, Joe Glass.

Brown conducted more pre-draft workouts yesterday at the Knicks’ Westchester facility, then left in the passenger seat of a black Chevy Trailblazer with assistant coach Dave Hanners behind the wheel.

The vehicle slowed down when it approached a half-dozen media members waiting for him on the side of the road, two blocks from the facility. Brown rolled down the window and said, “Can’t talk. Can’t talk. Sorry. Hope your families are all right.”

Hanners then hit the gas and they were off.

Two hours later, Brown made Glass call reporters to apologize. “He wants you to know he wasn’t being impolite,” Glass said. “There are instructions where nobody is allowed to talk to the media unless a public relations official is there.”

With yesterday marking Day 32 of The Brown Watch, the Knicks have refused to make Brown available. Two weeks ago he gave three roadside interviews, during which he called himself “a dead man walking.” During one brief roadside chat in the rain, Brown nearly hit Isiah Thomas’ Road Ranger pulling back onto the road.

The Knicks were upset Brown gave those interviews and that he also chatted briefly with writers in Orlando, telling them instead of the organization he was bolting one day early. The Knicks view Glass’ phone call as Brown finally abiding by the rules. Indeed, Brown does not want to do anything that would cost him the $40 million he has coming to him.

Sources said Thomas and Brown did not even exchange hellos yesterday. Ukrainian 7-foot center Oleksiy Pecherov, on the Knicks’ radar at No. 29 and who worked out yesterday, doesn’t speak English, which fit right in with the club’s communication woes.

More workouts are planned today that include Pitt 7-footer Aaron Gray.